PSYCH-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Sexual Orientation, Idiosyncrasy, Sampling Bias
30 Sep 2020
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The effect of a personality variable may depend on the situation, or vice versa. Certain types of people go to or find themselves in different types of situations. People change the situations they are in. People maintain their personalities even as they adapt their behaviour to particular. People can flexibly adapt to situations and have a generally consistent personal style. Understanding others (i. e. , being accurate) leads to better interactions and decisions. Intellectual expectancy effect: teacher"s expectations of students influenced. Pretended to assess students based on giftedness, assigned random students" performance students considered to be gifted . Perceived gifted students did better because of expectations and treatment of students. Percent of students with iq gains were a lot higher in the bloomers category. Social expectancy effect: examined effect of attractiveness of conversation. Attractiveness stereotype: people who are better looking are thought to be overall better in many ways. Based on observations of performance or behaviour, information from knowledgeable others.
